1995–96 Minnesota Timberwolves season

The 1995-96 NBA season was the Timberwolves' 7th season in the NBA.^[1] Midway through the season, forward Christian Laettner was traded to the Atlanta Hawks. The Timberwolves finished sixth in the Midwest Division with a 26-56 record.

Offseason

NBA Draft

Round	Pick	Player	Position	Nationality	College
1	5	Kevin Garnett	Forward	United States	Farragut Academy HS
2	48	Mark Davis	Guard/Forward	United States	Texas Tech
2	49	Jerome Allen	Guard	United States	Pennsylvania

Kevin Garnett

In Garnett's rookie season, the Timberwolves were in the midst of a transition phase; they replaced Bill Blair with Flip Saunders as head coach early in the season and made several trades. Garnett initially came off the bench in his rookie year, but moved into the starting lineup soon after Saunders became head coach. In his rookie year, Garnett and fellow newcomer Tom Gugliotta carried the scoring load. Garnett did not immediately leap to stardom as later prep-to-pro prospects such as Amar'e Stoudemire, LeBron James, and Dwight Howard would, but he did have a very respectable rookie year. He averaged 10.4 points, 6.3 rebounds and 1.8 assists per game and was voted into the All-Rookie Second Team.^[2] Despite having some promising players, the Timberwolves suffered through their seventh consecutive sub-30 win season and failed to make the playoffs. At the time Garnett was the youngest NBA player in history at 19 years and 11 months of age.

Regular season

Season standings

Player statistics

Awards and honors

• Kevin Garnett, NBA All-Rookie Second Team

References

• Minnesota Timberwolves on Database Basketball
• Minnesota Timberwolves on Basketball Reference